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In any environment, but Allah chose to make him the exclusive thinker that will think about Allah and question everything, single person around him.

And is going to think differently from every single individual around him starting from his own family, he's going to challenge the programming, the sociological programming, the familial programming that he was raised with, because we tend to accept the things that we were raised with as true and we don't question them, and he's going to have to challenge all of that from the very gecko.

It is an incredible thing that Allah did for a prophet, it's not just any prophet, it's a Rahim ad-e-Salam, the foundation for all of our creed, all of our, like I was mentioning last time, that even the religion of Islam, one of its names in the Qur'an is, you know, Milla ta'ibrahim, Milla ta'ibrahimah halifan, like Allah has associated his creed, his conclusions with Islam itself for the rest of us, right, and then Allah chose to put him in this incredibly,

when you can't think of a more anislamic environment, the ultimate crime against Allah is shirk, and he's in the hub of shirk, we don't have a lot of details about azar, we, you know, the father that was mentioned by name in the last ayah that I talked to you about, we don't know a lot about him, the only information you can get that's a little bit detailed will come from Jewish sources, because for the Jews, Ibrahim ad-e-Salam is actually a patriarchal figure, he's a fundamental figure, and they call themselves children of Ibrahim,

their, his name is different, the name of the father is different, it's not azar, and what we do learn about him is that he was mainly in charge of, you know, carving out the idols, it's also not far-fetched to think that the main temple in their village or their society, the city, the ancient city of Ur in Babylon, modern-day Iraq, that that city was, you know, whatever main temple they had, the custodian of the main temple,

was in fact his father, so he's born in the temple environment, he's, I want you to imagine, when he's little, all he sees around him are people that are worshipping these gods, doing all of their services, you know, I was, I had the opportunity to visit a police, which is one of the smallest states in Malaysia, and I had a really amazing opportunity to travel with Tatwanku, the head of the state in Malaysia, and we went to deliver Zakat to villagers,

and one of the stops we made was actually to the minorities, because their majority Muslim, the minority is Buddhist, we went to a Buddhist temple, and the, you know, the custodians of the temple actually give us a tour of where they teach the children, how they worship, and all of that, and I've been in, you know, musheric environments before, like, you know, idol worshipping environments, I've been in them before, and there's a certain feeling you get when you're there, there's a certain kind of, at least for me, there's a, you know, it hits you, you know, it hits you, you know,

you really hard, but it was still a learning experience. And I wonder, and some of those

kids, they're learning this stuff from childhood, they're raised there, like an orphanage,

so they're just raised there, right? I want you to imagine that Ibrahim Ali Saddam, our

messenger, our father, Rahim Ali Saddam is in that environment since he remembers being

conscious, like he would, he grows up in that environment completely. The most normal

thing to you is what you were raised with, right? That's the most normal thing to him.

And Allah chose to put him there and then he starts questioning everything. Why would

he do that? And then why would he call that the religion of our, you know, our religion

is his religion? Why? Because Allah is telling us that we, unlike every other faith, every

other tradition, every other creed, we cannot be believers because the surrounding is

that of believers, because we come from a believing family, because we have a believing support

system. That is not why we follow the religion of Ibrahim Ali Saddam. If we're truly loyal

to Ibrahim Ali Saddam, each one of us has to have our own conviction. We have to be,

we have to have our iman, not because it was passed down to us, but because we ourselves,

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